Its music, however, is fairly affecting.
So that’s something.
“What is the problem?”
Ben Platt and Kaitlyn Dever in ‘Dear Evan Hansen’.Erika Doss/Universal Pictures
The empathy is not actually there most notably not in Evan.
It’s enough of an ask to suspend disbelief as the outlandish plot contrivances pile up.
Nothing builds to the ridiculous (and ridiculously topical) stakes ofDear Evan Hansenby accident.
Obviously, movies do not have to have admirable protagonists to be effective.
Chbosky did not, so here we are.
The songs work.Grade: D
Dear Evan Hansenis out Sept. 24.
